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1994 – Foolish Regulations Are Devastating Fish Stocks

While national publicity spotlights loggers and farmers as the main victims of oppressive environmental regulation, other vocations also have been hard hit.

Animal ranching, for example. In Minnesota alone, sheep populations have plum­meted 80% from 94,000 several years ago to 16,000 in 1993.

The reason – predators. Though they decimate livestock, people are forbidden to kill them, forcing sheep growers to feed wolves, bears and coyotes rather than humans.

A similar fate has befallen commercial fisher folk. According to Teresa Platt, head of the Fishermen’s Coalition, America’s tuna fleet numbered 67 boats in 1990, of which 35 operated in the eastern Pacific.

Now we have only 47 boats and the eastern Pacific is mostly closed to tuna fishing under ridiculous provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

This act supposedly protects creatures such as dolphins from human excesses. Actually it prohibits control of not only dolphins (and polar bears which, incredibly, it labels marine mammals) but also sea lions and otters. Noted for voracious appetites, these now are so numerous they threaten fish and shellfish stocks along our entire western seaboard. Besides tuna, other fish harvests are seriously impacted by eco-foolishness. Here’s a letter (paraphrased) we’d like to share with you from someone with personal experience.

“We salmon fishermen are certainly no worse off than lots of other people, but I’ve watched our seasons go from year-round to six months. We’ve lost our insurance on federally documented boats such as mine. We’ve been pushed into small areas which depletes salmon there. We’ve lost markets because no one knows if there’ll be a season. And Native Americans are netting the rivers and selling salmon eggs to Japan for caviar.

“The latest report said they were selling 80,000 lbs. Of eggs, representing 1.8 million salmon to collect those eggs. The figure should be more like 3 million because they take male and female at the same time in gill nets. Also 80,000 lbs. of eggs mean many millions of fish.

“It said the eggs are more valuable than the fish. Does this explain why fish are becoming scarce?

“Not necessarily. One main reason is there used to be hatcheries everywhere. Now people are persuaded hatchery fish are inferior, though both parents come from wild stock.

“I work with a group called Salmon Trout Enhancement Program (STEP). We’ve proved salmon can be raised inexpensively in virtually any container in any stream. Fish and Game says “No”. They claim it costs $3.00 a fish to raise salmon. Yet STEP people do it for one-half cent each.

“Also, Coast Guard regulations are killing us. I believe they are “Green” influenced.

“It seems there’s this massive drive to get people off the oceans, out of the woods, off the farms, out of the country and into the cities where they’re closer to the Welfare Office.

“I’ve always thought if you don’t have enough spuds, plant more. If you run out of paint, get more.

“Our coastal communities are fishing villages, and they’re all but dead. It’s a shame.

“A bumper sticker the other day said `if you’re against abortion, don’t have one.’ I feel the same about fish. If you don’t want hatchery fish, quit fishing.

“If the “Green” people put half their money into habitat and raising fish, there would be enough for all. Instead they have to sue everyone, pocket the money, and (bleep) on the country.

“I agree that some practices have been wrong, but let’s fix those problems and get the fish raised and planted back and start harvesting them so we can live in some sort of normal fashion.

“It only takes three years to establish a salmon run in a creek or river. What we need is more effort, less BS, and fewer expensive surveys and evaluations.

“If your vacuum cleaner breaks down, you don’t analyze the history of cleaning or buy a hundred different carpets – you get the cleaner fixed.

When California condors were near extinction, they were caught and raised in pens (over the objections of Green groups) until there were enough to release them.

“I enclose a computer printout of confidential figures from (someone I know) at Bonneville Dam. He gave this to me from the actual fish count log. It shows salmon stocks there have been pretty well rising since 1938.

“Keep up the Great Work. We need more cranky buggers like you writing. A Stinky Fisherman, Larry Cruthers North Bend, OR.”

Thanks for a great letter, Larry. By the way, folks, we receive much mail and respond to each letter. Sometimes when we’re traveling (like now), mail doesn’t catch up and we fall behind. Please forgive such delays.

Normality in Society

“To be successful any society must establish the parameters for what is “normal” behavior. Liberals have blurred the parameters to such an extent that nothing is considered abnormal behavior.

“In every society there are also percentages that are genius, above average, average, below average, idiots and imbecile’s. We have achieved, via various “rights” propositions, a society where the imbecile’s, idiot’s and below average are in positions of authority. They have infiltrated our entertainment, our schools, our universities, and our government. They are typically called Liberals. It’s time to right our ship.”

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Why the Left Lies

I. Credibility

All Lies are designed to seem true. The expert liar carefully uses elements that seem probable and logical and are therefore easy to believe. On the other hand, The Truth is often illogical, wildly improbable and hard to explain.

Lies are more believable than The Truth.

II. Reliability

The Truth is spontaneous, accidental and unpredictable. Lies, however, can be planned in detail long in advance and are thus guaranteed to turn out as predicted.

Lies are more dependable than The Truth.

III. Economy

To be The Truth, an account of a given event must be com­pletely accurate. This requires painstaking resourcefulness, expen­sive research, time-consuming attention to detail, complex logistics and thoroughness. In spite of all that, some people will believe it and others will not. A Lie will produce identical results without all the fuss and bother.

Lies are simpler than Truth; Lies cost less than Truth in time, money and effort.

IV. Value

The Truth can be found anywhere; it belongs to anybody who finds it, absolutely free. Lies are custom-made, often by experts, and the best ones are highly polished works of art.

Lies are worth more money than Truth. Have you ever heard of anybody bribing a witness to tell The Truth?

V. Respectability

a. Great fortunes have been made by selling Lies to the pub­lic. The people who sell these Lies are often grateful to the gullible consumers, so they endow libraries and universities and cultural centers.

b. Nobody ever made a fortune selling The Truth. First of all, as already stated, The Truth is free. The only people who will pay money for The Truth are people who are being blackmailed-and they are only buying The Truth so they can hide it before anybody else sees it.

Lies lead to libraries and universities, while The Truth leads to blackmail.

VI.Stability

Take one thousand parts Truth, add one part Lie. Result: a Lie.

Take one-thousandth part Lie, add one part Truth. Result: again, a Lie.

Note that you can make a Lie out of The Truth, but you can’t make The Truth out of a Lie.

Lies are stronger and last longer than The Truth.

VII. Imagination

In reporting The Truth, a person must research the precise facts and stick to them exactly as they occurred. The liar can report the same incident without doing any research, merely saying whatever comes to his mind and filling in the “details” according to his cause.

Lies are more creative than the Truth.

VIII. Recognizability

People are accustomed to hearing Lies all the time.

If you tell The Truth, people will think you are lying. If you convince them you are telling The Truth, they will become suspicious. Why is he suddenly telling The Truth? What’s going on?

VIX. Supply and Demand

A. In describing any given incident, only one version can possibly be The Truth, whereas the number of Lies possible is unlimited. Obviously Lies are in far greater supply than Truth.

B. There is a great demand for Lies, if they are flattering, if they build up one’s hopes, if they help one escape reality or if they promise health, wealth, power or potency. Nobody is very anxious to hear The Truth. The only people who demand The Truth are those who are investigating something (lawyers, etc.)-and they only want The Truth to prove somebody is lying.

Lies are the acceptable medium of exchange in our society. They are in good supply and the demand for them remains strong. The Truth is in extremely short supply, but even this tiny supply far exceeds the demand. Thus, in our society, Truth occupies a position identical to that of dinosaur shit.